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[smithsonianmag.com]

The Women Who Mapped the Universe And Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of women known as the Harvard Observatory computers helped revolutionize the science of astronomy

n 1881, Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard Observatory, had a problem: the volume of data coming into his observatory was exceeding his staff’s ability to analyze it. He also had doubts about his staff’s competence–especially that of his assistant, who Pickering dubbed inefficient at cataloging. So he did what any scientist of the latter 19th century would have done: he fired his male assistant and replaced him with his maid, Williamina Fleming. Fleming proved so adept at computing and copying that she would work at Harvard for 34 years–eventually managing a large staff of assistants.
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